The Metal Slug Triple Feature
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025
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Ending song is a cover of Living On The Deck by the excellent Super Soul Bros.!
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"it's the lovers, from jojo!" i do understand the confusion, but it's actually a common inspiration, both being based off of a rare earth animal called a "crab".
Yeah my man doesn't know common sea creatures, i mean he could have missed the dr. Moreau Island reference and i would not be suprised, but you have to be an absolute monkey to dont know what a crab is.
carcinization
jojo brain damage
Tbf they look a lot closer to the lovers than to an actual crab
Jojo brainrot is not only real but terminal
Fun fact about the Marspeople Mothership being “deep”: concept art for MS3 actually shows that the long hallway is the player going around the circumference of the ship (which is a couple of kilometers, i believe) and you’re gradually spiraling inward until you reach the next screen.
The Rugname's(Marspeople mothership) height itself is actually only about 2 storey's high (12 meters) but it more than makes up for because of its wideness. Metal Slug 2's concept art shows the scale of it compared to the Daimanjis(The spherical ships that attach to the bottom of the Rugname) and they are TINY compared to the Rugname's girth.
Secret hint about shitty looking water/rainbows. On digital output it looks shitty because it is flipping between the waterfall the rainbow quickly and each full frame is instantly shown all at once.
Now if this was hooked up to a CRT, the scanlines will switch between the two frames but due to the nature of phosphors in CRT glowing for a bit by the time the game scanlines comes back around, it will draw the waterfall with the faded rainbow colors resulting in a constantly blending of the two images.
this is also the reason sonic running on emulator has waterfalls that look like shit compared to how it looks on a CRT
Thats some outstanding use of technology holy hell. This game is even better in term of quality than I though
@@perteks7639 Here's an example of the effect I am talking about.
ruclips.net/video/s4QOHe4bOZc/видео.html
The first 4/5s of the video is showing emulator attempts with various shaders/filters to recreate the waterfall effect on a digital monitor. Some are very close, most are horrible with either Sonic or the Waterfall being most visible.
The last fifth of the video shows what the game looks like going to a CRT. That is the effect I was talking about.
That's not an accurate description of how this effect works or even the effect that's happening here (or in Sonic). The checkerboard dithering in the waterfall is simply for transparency, not a rainbow effect. It also works (to a lesser extent) on modern LCD TVs when the console is connected via composite. Composite is kind of inherently shitty and blurry, especially horizontally. The blurriness is increased on CRTs by the phosphor glow as the electron gun scans across the screen, but is still there on LCDs, because again, composite is shitty. The moment you switch to component, RGB over SCART, S-Video, or anything digital, the effect falls apart, even on a CRT, and especially on an LCD.
Because of how blurry composite is, you can put checkerboard dithering on a sprite and the entire dithered region becomes a sort of gradient between the colours involved. You can use this to get partial transparency in a sprite, which is what's going on here. Sonic uses vertical transparent lines for its gradient transparency, which looks better on composite (checkerboarding would a little bit more obvious because composite is less blurry vertically) and far worse on RGB (now Sonic has vertical transparent lines through him). This is awesome in an era where transparency is basically limited to 1 bit, because now you can easily fake partial transparency. It also obviously works well for gradients, and on CRTs, producing colours that the console naturally can't as the phosphor glow causes colour "blending".
The reason it's switching which pixels are transparent every frame is to create a sense of motion, but the transparency works without that. The rainbows happening in Sonic's transparent waterfalls happen even on LCDs over composite, because it's specifically the Genesis's composite output not entirely conforming to spec causing that, nothing to do with CRTs, or phosphor, or pseudo-partial-transparency. I know I'm gonna type (have typed) too much already, so I won't get into the Genesis's video output or subcarriers or anything like that.
A huge number of older games use dithering for this exact reason, and some consoles straight up supported it in hardware. Soooo many PS1 games use the built-in hardware dithering heavily, and they look much sharper, but much shitter, as soon as you switch to RGB output. Some of the skyboxes in Gran Turismo 2 are totally fucked on anything but composite, regardless of the display.
Ecco's title screen is a great example of composite+dithering being used to get blended gradients, and Streets of Rage uses big checkerboard yellow/transparent cones for partially transparent ceiling lights. I don't know that I can post links here, but google "the case for composite" and you'll get a blogspot post with great still examples of what I'm talking about, including the ones mentioned. Nothing mentioned here is a very fancy use of the technology of the time though, it was all very normal game dev stuff, though Sonic did at least kind of use the janky Genesis video output to its advantage in an interesting way.
CRTs don't really work how you described- by the time the electron gun gets back around to any given point, that phosphor has mostly stopped glowing. That's why CRTs are mostly dim with one big fat glowing line when filmed. At any given time, most of the display is pretty dim, but human persistence of vision makes it not really matter. If they did work how you describe, they'd be terrible, especially at high refresh rates, and anyone who has played CS at 120Hz on a CRT so heavy that it causes their desk to bend knows that isn't the case.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk yadda yadda
@@HotClown thank you for this!
@@perteks7639 Most of the process of programming is finding clever ways to do stuff better
Back then it was about using the system's to the fullest
Same reason Mother 3 has a vastly superior soundtrack to other GBA games, the dev knew what instruments to use in order to get the best music quality
Metal Slug is like gaming's Shakespeare. Everyone says it's great and important and foundational, but a quick glance doesn't really differentiate it from it's peers. It's only when you're educated in the medium and give it the proper study that you realize there's masterpieces layered on masterpieces throughout, and EVERYTHING that came after was influenced.
How is Shakespeare that good?
@@goldra8409 The short version is, dude wrote decently entertaining stories when nobody had really figured out how to do that yet, he did a bunch of different genres, he invented most of the cliches of English writing, and he did it all in iambic pentameter, just for that added bit of aural flair. If you enjoy anything ever made in English media, you owe some small thanks to Shakespeare for creating part of it.
@@Trygon Huh, makes sense. The best explanation my literature teacher could give was that he wrote so many plays that he still sticks around today
@@goldra8409 Your "teacher" is also something that OP mentioned on how Shakespeare at first and naked glance is just mediocre and nothing special, because it takes some understanding to why the guy is so coveted. Otherwise, people may think he's just some writer from the past.
@@goldra8409 also he invented like 500 or so of the English words we use now
It's really not even the sprites that get me in this game, and yes the sprites are fucking INCREDIBLE, but other games have sprite quality to this level. What sets Metal Slug apart is their animations. They animate things that no other game ever would take the time to animate like the POWs hanging are slightly rotating back and forth or the character idle shifting or some crazy hit reaction animations like the tank has a silly personified knock back animation when it's hit. It's so amazingly stylized, brilliant, and complex. I can tell the sprite artists on this team had a real passion.
And they do it all with such a GUSTO that you don't expect. Like they all feel impactful and easy to read, your eyes are drawn over and you just keep wanting to see more and more of them.
Also you have reloading animations if you shoot x amount of bullets and stop, and the animation also is different for characters who have different types of pistols
I also noticed that, when he pressed DOWN towards the ground while flying with the jetpack, the character started jetpack-running on the ground. He didn't even notice
It's also how everything bounces, shakes, bends, and breaks which I've never before seen in a high quality pixel art game, since usually the art and backgrounds alone is the spectacle, less so the animations. Shooting tanks and cars with a pistol shouldn't be this satisfying, but somehow they just made it work.
the whole metal slug saga reeks of ultra detailed personality. i feel like there's no other game that has that much personality.
I like how at 44:26 he implies that clowns are in fact not living and thinking human beings.
Don't forget breathing and feeling. It was living, thinking, breathing, feeling human beings. I can definitely agree that clowns are unfeeling and inhuman.
Implies? Isn't that common knowledge?
Why do you think we have colleges just for clowns?
clown here, can confirm, im actually in a hivemind
that's because they're not
they never were
the instant you become a clown, your brain gets connected to a hivemind of nothing but the words "entertain them all"
Half of his deaths are caused by him failing to understand that crouching is a thing.
Fun fact about 48:10
Tarma and Eri are unviable for speedrunning because if you let them get captured, they have an extra animation at 55:48 where they kick the computer. Wasting a second because those two are not tech-savvy
I knew I wasn't Mandela-remembering It!!! Thank you!!
@@Scrubermenschi tought it was a random animation every character can do lol
MY GIRL FIO'S VIABLE LET'S GO
its so weird because Tarma is Vehicle specialized XD
I love how the Not-zis launch space D-Day in an attempt to get their leader back and just wave you into one of their ships
23:34 that Rebel soldier on top of the taxi just fucking FLEW
Lol yeah I saw that as well , that rebel flew into space lol
The thing that triggered me was that he didnt use the grenade for almost
all of the transformations
The zombie grenade is completly broken
It's perfect
The Metal Slug 3 RAWKET LAWNCHAIR pickup noise is the best pickup noise in any game, ever.
I'm personally partial to F L A M E S H O T
I'm more of a HEAVY MACHINEGUN guy myself
no love for I R O N L I Z Z E R D ?
Don't forget SHAWTGUN!
I love metal slug 1 announcer too, he got more emotion.
HEVIMASHINGUNNN
SHTGNNNN
RAWCKT LONCHR
That sun-god or whatever from metal slug 3 looks like it could be the final boss of like twelve different games
Sol Dae Rocker or something, I hate him
Metal Slug is one of those series where I swear I've experienced every individual part seperately in some way before even playing the game. Seeing the pixel art just because it's good, hearing the music just because that's good, hearing the "RAWKET LOWNCHER" and "HEAVY MACHINE GUN" just because they're funny voice clips. So actually playing it was amazing. Also because the game is just cool as hell. It's got that Metal Gear kind of over-the-top nonsense taken somewhat seriously. Yeah I'll save a half naked man who gives me a rocket launcher out of his spare underwear to shoot a railgun tank, why not?
Also for the record, the TAS of Metal Slug 3 is absolutely phenomenal, highly recommend. I think it's done with 2 characters to optimize damage, and the amount of grenade spam and crazy perfect shots and throws is amazing. Plus because it's a tas there's perfect teamwork, one character clearing stragglers so the other with the beefy guns can save their ammo for the big enemies, it's so cool.
It does the insanity even better, because unlike Metal Gear, it doesn't try to take itself seriously and mix it with the over the top stuff
It knows what it wants to do and it does it perfectly
I love that the red banner at 14:22 says "I have diarrhea"
I love how the first game was strictly military Rambo stuff then it goes IMMEDIATELY off the rails with crazy ass shit right in the second game. Then the third game has you fight lovecraftian cosmic abomninations and it’s not even the final level.
There’s seven of these?
Plus some portable ones, a 3d one and the upcoming tactics
The three games were made officially by SNK before they went bankrupt on the third one. So they decided to end the series out with a bang before a branch company (if that what you guys call it) picked it up and continued onward with the series.
I think the games take inspiration from WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam war respectively for the settings
But always having that high anime tech touch
The first game takes place in very old looking places with more "vintage" palettes and shows plenty of small and simple tanks
The second game introduces the pseudo-naz* symbols and the main leader
Finally the third takes place in jungle like zones with fights in the trenches
@@tivvy2vs21 “””””upcoming”””””
@@rompevuevitos222 they also seem to take some inspiration from the soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the gulf war
Every Grayfruit stream is like a quick glimpse of my childhood, I don't know why I relate so much to this man and his tales but I just do. Keep it up, fruit man
Grayfruit: the people’s champ
He's like a 2000s GameStop employee showing kids cool games to buy and we're the kids
THATS WHAT IM SAYIN, I love this man so much no homo. been a supporter for 2 years now and every stream just keeps getting better. I fall asleep to him almost every night, he is just so calming, I'm glad u enjoy him too.
@@elcuh3316 bro I always put his videos on to sleep, they’re so nostalgic somehow??? Like I love falling asleep to the goofy fruitman
@@vickster97 u got insta? we can talk about the fruit man more :>
Ah Metal Slug 3, SNK's swan song before filing bankruptcy.
Here's some interesting bits about Mission 2's mid-boss (Monoeyes) and their ship, which is the boss of the stage.
Yes! The Monoeyes are Marspeople just a different breed apparently and the way the Zombies are caused initially is through psychic emissions from the Monoeye's ship, then afterwards infection through bodily fluids start.
About Mission 4.
Mission 4 has the most amount of alternate pathways in the game. The mission takes place somewhere in Brazil apparently where our heroes are sent in to investigate a distress call from a hidden Rebel research lab inside an Aztec pyramid.
The level's main threat are genetic experiments and bioweapons produced in the facility-hence the Man Eater plants and their spores. This was also where mutagenic research was transferred to when Dr. Moreau's Lab(Mission 1) was raided by our heroes. Hence you see giant crabs and flies in this level as well as other mutated wildlife if you go to the bottommost route on the level.
Metal Slug being Metal Slug, of course, being built below an Aztec pyramid, it has mummies if you take the middle-top route.
Going straight leads you into a Japanese camp. Division 6 of the Rebel Army, to be precise, they were told to guard those caves ever since the First Morden War(the first game) but since our heroes never went there for TWO games, the Rebel Army themselves forgot the existence of Division 6. Division 6 having lost contact with the rest of the army had to subsist by living off the land and notably having outdated tech, since they didn't even know the Rebel Army has lost 2 Wars by this point.
Sol Dae Rokker(Mission 4 boss) is something kinda out of left field. Apparently it is revealed to be one the Marspeople's ancient weapons that crash landed on Brazil but was operable enough to have a god-like worship from the people in ancient times, Sol Dae Rokker has laid dormant for centuries until the Marspeople reactivate it to fight off the exiting Regular Army Commandos.
O thanks!! Can you please explain me more about Geographia (The Avatar of Evil[Final Boss of MS5, symbol of the parade flag of the Rebel Army]) I've searched online but never found anything important about him or why the Rebel Army disappears exactly in the game where their "God" is the final boss, also the true end of the series as it was.
Can I just say I love how the final bosses of the first three games just kept ramping up in length and how much shit happens? Like you keep thinking "This must be it" AND THEN HERE COMES FUCKING ROOTMARS FOR A REALLY COOL FINAL FIGHT. Not even to mention this game series, at least the third one's final fight from what I heard, does use leitmotifs- so it genuinely feels like your theme is playing half the time.
Which makes the final scene so much cooler
The main character is just so done that he throws away his gun in the hopes of never getting it back. He went trough hell and back and he shows it
I know Arabic particularly well and at 14:22 THAT TED BANNER ON THE BACKGROUND JUST SAYS "I HAVE CONSTIPATION"
Someone else said it was “diarrhea” instead but either one is still really funny
24:32 I don't want to be near any ceilings Grayfruit is living under.
"Can I keep this for more than half a second?"
Literally sums up every freaking time I pick up either a Shotgun, Flameshot or Laser gun power up.
At 37:38 when the guy sinks into the sand, he does a thumbs up Terminator 2 style
I actually played metal slug 3 with my brother on an arcade machine and that was a fucking amazing time, this game is definitely meant to be played with more than one person that's why they throw so much at the player ,it didn't eat up our quarters at all because we were able to watch each other's backs and always stay on top of the hordes of enemies
We had to stop playing because it was time to leave the restaurant where the machine was and we only got to like level 3 I think (somewhere after the killing the Aliens in the rock)
5 minutes in and grayfruit has already committed 6 separate war crimes
21:57 Guy who only seen Ghost in the Shell seeing a storm drain:
metal slug 3 taking up 2/5ths of the video is so telling of that game lmao
19:49
This is why I love this channel. Just humor like this. God this channel is incredible. Amazing job, Gray and Lark
I've watched this frog bit 50 times now thanks to your timestamp thank you
55:10 I'm surprised he didn't mention the fact that this attack is literally Brimstone from Binding of Isaac. I figured Mr. Gray "Deep Cut" Fruit would've made that connection.
28:52 holy shit i had no idea those things are from Metal Slug 2
the old developer of the Thaumcraft mod for Minecraft had one of those as his profile picture
oh my god that's also where I used to know them from holy shit
Ok, THIS is the hardest nostalgia that I have ever felt, and that'll probably ring true for years to come.
For those unaware (all of you), I have only played Metal Slug 3, but on a console that belonged to one of my cousins, who lives in a different continent that speaks a different language, a continent which I have only been on holiday to (to meet him and other family) 3 times, 2 times where I was capable of playing a game, the latter of which coincided with my 11th birthday.
And yet, when grayfruit played MS3, I remembered the vast majority of bosses, enemies and setpieces that the game had. I have very few memories of what it was actually like to play with my cousin with the language barrier, but I could remember many details from the game with ease.
I also really like how there isn't really a need for you to understand a certain language in these games too; aside from menuing, all of the story is shown visually, especially in the third one.
Something that was kinda highlighted by this video is how over the top some of the shit in this game is, like the part in 3 where they throw a million tanks down on you in the water, or the machine that makes monoliths rain, or the blood lazar from the captured character; I guess I never really picked up on that when I was younger.
All in all; this is a masterful series of games. Both eye and brain candy. I probably won't watch subsequent videos on this series until I play the games myself.
10:15 can we just talk about how slick this was
I appreciate the restraint on the devs part to not have you rescuing women in bikinis.
The POWs are fairly fitting actually
In a cartoony setting with just evil guys, it would be logical to have prisoners just be stripped down to some shoddy hay pants that just stash their contraband in their underwear
You also get the name and rank of every POW you rescue at the end of each level
@@rompevuevitos222 They're basically a cartoonish depiction of Vietnam POWs.
I've been anticipating this for a long time. I knew Grayfruit would absolutely love the voice lines and music dips.
29:19 As someone from Latin America I can attest that everyone here is born with 10 brains to waste less than 10 continue in any Metal Slug game
As a someone born in Argentina i'm going to Say i can Beat metal slug in on life
23:34 That guy on top of the car just went into the stratosphere
The Metal Slug games are such masterpieces and I wish more people played them
I love how every screaming noise sounds so REAL
What I love about this game is that it is casual hard and not "difficult" hard, the game is casual but have frequent moments where you're at the edge of your seat trying not to get hit.
god I fucking love this game
16:33 Were any of you guys scared of this boss fight when younger? i sure was, that thing is gigantic and i don't like knowing what it's full body looks like, it almost reminds me of that robot dragon from Rayman Origins
12:34 my head canon is that he threw that in space so that he could get the help of the mars people in the second game.
After all these years I never realized that the commando games on miniclip are just reskins of Metal Slug, damn
Same here, blowing my mind a little bit. Also reaaally makes me wanna install flashpoint so i could replay that series.
The fact this game was technically released for the home market (NEO GEO AES home console) is still mind blowing. Makes me wish the NEO GEO AES sold better.
7:24 the problem with some of those ports, including some of the metal slug games, if memory serves, is that they are either bad ports from mobile in specifically Chrono Trigger's case, or in Metal Slug's past, bad emulators that can barely function. MS's had it happen more than once if I remember.
Yo guys, kinda unrelated to the video but I just wanted to share that my whole life I thought Donkey Kong was a ps2 game because I played it on a ps2 when I was a kid, but it turns out I was actually playing a pirated version of it for ps2 and I'm very disappointed
Oof, I feel for you dude.
I was convinced as a naive little boy that if I just searched enough, I would eventually be able to find a copy of Halo... for the game cube 😅
My friend had an xbox and I didn't, but I loved playing it over at his house, so I *needed* to find it! Eventually I got a 360 a bit after it came out, and I was perfectly happy with Halo 3 and eventually Reach then!
Also, they made a version of CoD WaW for the Wii! Like not a pirated one, and the motion controls worked alright lol. But I found out the hard way that it didn't include Nazi Zombies 🤦♂️ (I still had a lot of fun with it, but once I eventually got a gaming PC I also bought the game on steam to play zombies with friends).
A friend still has one of those "200 games in one" disc for his PS2
He only really plays Mario World tho
@@rompevuevitos222 that's exactly what I had
35:06 I lost it at the 'Top 10 Scary Emails In Gaming!!!' bit. 10/10 impression.
16:46 this sound brings me incredible levels of dopamine.
this really is just the best pixel art period the end
oh you poor soul playing the steam ports
Whenever those blue spirit wolf things howl, they sound exactly like Patrick Star screaming. Just thought I should point that out.
i can´t believe he didn´t try to use granade as a zombie, and only saw the blood vomit full screen move in the alien section
Y'know what this is? The coolest video game trilogy ever. 4 guys killing Not-zis and fighting aliens with guns and explosives and vehicles in a giant war while saving prisoners. I genuinely cannot think of something that is more cool than this.
These games just perfected the arcade gameplay to the point where 7 levels of the exact same thing could be replayed hundreds of times
Fun Fact: Metal Slug X is an upgraded version of Metal Slug 2 that not only improves game performance and reduces slowdown, but also adds new enemies, weapons, and bosses.
Holy fuck if whoever did the sprite work isn't a billionaire I'm going to kill
My brothers and i used to play metal slug together on our grandma's computer
I didn't know the name of the game tho so i always said: "can we play the shooting people"
First it was Capcom and now let's hope that the fruit man also plays SNK's fighting games in the future
Pro tip
When in a vehicle crouch and then jump to dismount, when you do that you get a small moment of invincibility, you can jump back in before the invincibility runs out, you can use this to avoid taking damage in a vehicle and helps a lot in boss fights if you get good at it
Holy shit this quality goodness, this was one of my earliest memories of Mexico
I like the part where Gray implies that clowns aren't human beings
dude he had to see the zombie grenade animation
There were so many sequences that looked insane and really hard, but they looked easy. Either you're just a god or that is some awesome game design to make the player feel like a badass
Marco's profile looks like it's about to call me maidenless
It is amazing to watch someone experience Metal Slug games for the first time :D I remember playing it on arcade machines probably 20 or so years ago. Every bit of money I had I would exchange for machine tokens so I can play more ;D Much later on PSX I was playing a lot too, even to a point of doing 0 death runs on Metal Slug X.
Good times, great to see someone play for the first time and being blown away with how solid the game is
36:01 holy shit, enemy chaser sound effect
I swear the screams when the enemies die is the same scream when you mess up in Bop it
Imagine if the game was full four player and at the point where a character gets kidnapped the fourth player was just forced to not play anymore.
It's wild seeing how much you improve throughout the video. Great stuff as always
Fun Fact about Metal Slug 3:
The male characters use handguns, while the females use revolvers. Depending on what gender of the character you play as, the ending will change. Of course, all four characters will throw their gun into the water with unique animations, but for females, it'll show their revolvers sinking instead of the males' handguns.
Why and how do the females fire 200 rounds with revolvers? Don't ask me.
its the same technology that lets them upgrade a revolver to fire seeking missiles
@@Badsy_the_Edgecat Wrong. They technically switch to a much larger gun when they pick up a powerup, so the revolver is just firing 200 rounds a minute. There's no other conclusion but that.
@@isaacbypass oh, huh, as it turns out i wasnt paying that much attention
"more than enough shots to kill anything that moves" means a whole lot more in metal slug
I LOVE Metal Slug, really hoping Metal Slug Tactics breathes new life into the franchise!
As a fan of xcom but not run n gun shooters, metal slug tactics finally seems like a way that I can fall in love with this franchise
It's not really Metal Slug, but hey, maybe it brings enough attention to make SNK consider another sequel
Grayfruit really releasing an hour long banger in the middle of my finals week.
it's so sad for the fruit of gray that he never used the zombie grenade in MS3...
35:33 Oh my god. It's ??? from Isaac, using his signature item The Poop
When I was a kid, I would try to sneakily watch my dad play Metal Slug 2 because he didn't want me to see the violence. I thought no one else even knew these games exosted
There is so much SOUL in those games!
I 'm so glad Grayfruit enjoyed them as well.
I can't believe the red and blue projectiles from advanced Guardian Heroes made a cameo in this game
Howl’s Moving Gunship made me cackle. I love SNK, and I love these games.
I sure hope someone recommended Mercenary Kings to Mr. Fruit during these streams
grayfruit's videos are always a joy to watch specially when it's about a beloved classic like metal slug
This was my shit at 6 or 7 years of age in an old laundromat in Wisconsin so very long ago. Welcome to the chaotic fun of exuberantly yelling powerup names for posterity
yo metal slug, loved these games as a kid. i remember spending a good couple weeks trying to beat the last mission in ms3 and even then it took 20 continues. also it really showed me how to get good at arcadey games like this which really helped out when i got into shumps like the alltynextrilogy and zero ranger
What a gorgeous set of games these are the I've heard some of the later ones lost a crapton of charm
The fuckin "Enemy Chaser!" sound effect has been RUINED for me by league memes
I didn’t realize how incredible the pixel art was
I’m so glad he made this into a video. School
Has been kicking up so I haven’t had time to watch much/any of the vods recently but I wanted to watch these so it’s so nice to be able to see this stuff
audibly yo'd when I saw this in my sub notifications, u go fruitman
I don't know if you've played it before or not, but a pretty fun/funny game in the same style as these is Broforce. It's also CHOCK-FULL of references to a ton of movies and games (Metal Slug included), as every character (each of which acts as lives) is a reference to something. Stuff from Kill Bill to Terminator to James Bond and even Highlander. It's a wild ride and even has local multiplayer if you want to do so.
these games are a few of the best of all time. oh man.
Had a Metal Slug machine in my basement from ages 10-16. “HEAVY MACHINE GUN” will always be burned into my head
I'm upset Grayfruit didn't get to use the awesome blood vomit cannon himself when he got turned into a zombie in Metal Slug 3. Was my favourite thing to use when I was a kid and used to play this game with my dad
14:25 The middle sign is saying I have diarrhea for some reason lol
So happy to see you playing these, the first teo games were my childhood. Recently I played the rest of the series and I gotta say the 3rd one is amaing.
Metal slug was just always the loudest cabinet in every arcade when I was a kid. That and that 4 player simspons game.
I fucking love these games, played the shit out of em’ on IOS when I was a lad
I can't believe you'd never played a Metal Slug game up until this point but I'm very glad you enjoyed it as much as you did! It's so _fucking_ good, dude.
I'm definitely not just saying that from my SNK bias, certainly not. 🤭
the eyeball spiders feel out of place because they are way more saturated than the rest of the game's color palate
My brother and I love these games, we play them almost every time we go to an arcade that has one. We even bought Metal Slug Anthology for the Wii because we loved the games so much! Metal Slug is one of those game series’ that even though it’s completely cheap in… well, all of it, but you can’t help but love ‘em!
(Also, keep that old guy in mind for one of the later games)
incredible
can't wait for you to check the other games as well!
God DAMN I love all the zany machines and enemies in these games, so much soul
If anyone says video games arent art, this game would like to have a word with you